WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University scientists have managed to crystallize a particularly troublesome type of protein, an accomplishment that could overcome a 20-year hurdle in fighting a wide ...

Pharmaceutical compounds often crystallize in a variety of forms known as polymorphs. Because of differences in stability, solubility, and other properties that affect the molecules’ behavior in the ...

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have revolutionized cancer therapy due to their ability to specifically target tumor cells while sparing healthy ones. These biologics have become indispensable in ...

A new technique for creating vertical alignment among liquid crystal molecules could allow development of less costly flexible displays and lead to a better understanding of the factors that govern ...

Complexes, such as protein/protein, nucleic acids/nucleic acid, protein/nucleic acid, protein/ligand, nucleic acid/ligand, are often difficult to crystallize even on well-defined biological systems, ...

An innovative method that allows increased success and speed of protein crystallization – a crucial step in the laborious, often unsuccessful process to determine the 3-dimensional structure unique to ...

The push to get higher speed, more accurate clock signals for communications line cards has pushed frequency control suppliers in two directions. Both use semiconductor techniques: one to improve the ...

In a recent study, scientists from Tokyo University created zinc-based double-walled crystalline nanotubes using a brand-new supramolecular crystallization technique that entails oxidation-based ...

High throughput crystallization techniques are frequently employed to generate the large numbers of high purity protein crystals needed for protein crystallography. These attempt to crystallize ...

What better way to demonstrate new crystallization techniques than to make snowflakes? But instead of making delicate crystals of water, researchers from the University of New South Wales, the ...